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James Smith 💾
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Generic humanoid carbon unit. ❤️ tech, democracy, environment, society. Instantiated @ 332ppm.

Currently building @manyfold and site admin @ https://mastodon.me.uk […]

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Er, did GitHub always show results from *utterly unrelated repositories* in the issue number autocompletion?
A screenshot of a github autocomplete dropdown. I've typed "Resolves #maf-", and the dropdown a showing a list of issues, none of which are from any of my repositories.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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And Apple Music looks like it has two because of the sidebar, OMG, kill it with fire.
Two curved corners, one inside the other, on Apple Music
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Upgraded to macOS Tahoe over the weekend, and now all my windows seem to have different curvature radii. Thanks Apple, I absolutely hate it.
Three apple window corners showing different radii of curvature
November 24, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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#3dprinting experts, generally my printer is pretty well calibrated these days, so it’s not really a problem, but do you know what can cause this sort of moiré pattern on the first layer? Could it be an artefact of the bed mesh compensation maths, or something mechanical?
A top down view of a 3d print bed with a partly-printed rectangular first layer.
November 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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How does time even
Tintin and Captain Haddock; the captain is looking exasperated, saying "what a start to the year, huh?"; Tintin replies "Captain, it's November"
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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@Edent ooh you should meet @matthew, my collaborator on Manyfold!
Ted Lasso saying “congrats, you both just met a cool person”
November 11, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Attempting to write concise copy that explains things well is trifficult.
A still from kids cartoon Bluey, in which Bingo, a young Heeler dog, is attempting to stab tomatoes on her plate and failing. She exclaims "this is trifficult!"
November 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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@Edent I like this *a lot*
A cartoon of two large beast things (“alots”) with a person in between looking at one, captioned “I like this alot more”
October 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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*tap tap tap*
The simpsons meme wherein a bus driver says “don’t make me tap the sign”. The next panel shows the sign, with meme text on saying “yes it’s fucking political; everything’s political”
October 9, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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@pikesley ok then
October 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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@theaardvark
A still from Knight Rider; a finger presses a button next to a lit up label that says "Turbo Boost".
October 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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@andrewnez @michael hey there, you two should talk. Andrew's exploring scientific software dependency trees for ecosyste.ms, and Michael's doing similar from the academic direction and talked about it last OggCamp (and others).
Ted Lasso saying "congrats, you both just met a cool person"
October 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Yay, @CatherineFlick’s book arrived!
A book with a black cover featuring a big purple swirl. The title is “getting started with tech ethics”
October 1, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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I like this meme that was RT'd by DHH.

He sees himself as a powerful god looking down on an irrelevant noise.

I see someone refusing to give in despite the power differential, even if they don't have a hope, and you know what, I'm totally happy with that.
Two large sparkly armoured figures sit in thrones, labelled "DHH" and "Rails Community". At their feet, a tiny person waving a wooden sword aggresively is labelled "Some Low-T loser calling for his resignation"
September 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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@Edent

Here's what I saw:
September 28, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Rapture day is it? Excellent.
A still from The Thick Of It. An angry man is on a mobile phone, saying “Okay, fuckity bye”
September 23, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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@UKFilmNerd there's only one canonical Robin Hood adaptation as far as I'm concerned...
A promotional shot for "Maid Marian and her Merry Men"; featuring five cast members dressed in green medieval(ish) garb, and looking at the camera.
September 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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@pikesley @gilesdring
September 14, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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I’m not sure any amount of shaking is going to make these the same colour. I’m confused. #minipainting
Two bottles of GreenStuffWorld Red Goblin colorshift paint. The one on the left is distinctly pink, and the one on the right is more yellowish.
September 11, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Someone's been nerd sniping.
Two whiteboards propped up in a field, with a series of complex formulae, diagrams, and physics-related terms on
August 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Borrowed this off a mate; time to introduce 12yo to one of the best games ever made.
Space Hulk (2nd edition) box. A space marine in bulky red power armour fights off horrific alien horrors that are surrounding him.
August 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Say what you like about AI-generated code, it's never going to come up with code like what I, a professional with over 30 years of experience, just wrote.
Some ruby code that defines a one-line method called poop, which prints the string "poop"
August 7, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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@pikesley for you, anything.
A 3d printer with a bed level test print in the shape of a Heighway Dragon fractal curve
July 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Oooh, now *that* is a nicely calibrated bed level. #3dprinting
A 3d print bed with a hilbert curve like bed level test on it, one thin wiggly line all the way across, perfectly adhered and consistent.
July 23, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Love watching the first layer of a print.
A 3d printer bed with a number of outlines on it, including an array of hexagons.
July 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM